Virtual Tag-a-rama

**FJRider** · 22nd June 2009, 21:19

Originally Posted by Kemet

F..

me! That must be a really really old photo!!!

Slight difference being that small slab of concrete they added in later???

And the "bikes" weren't new then either ... and I'm not that old ... older than the photo though.

**Transalper** · 19th July 2009, 10:14

Is it anywhere about the Kawarau river heading in the general direction of Queenstown?
Hot/Warm/Cold/Freezing ?

**FJRider** · 19th July 2009, 11:20

Originally Posted by Transalper

Is it anywhere about the Kawarau river heading in the general direction of Queenstown?
Hot/Warm/Cold/Freezing ?

Kemet was correct .. a big slab of concrete makes this view impossible now.

The view is of the area in the Cromwell Gorge known as Jacksons.

**LittleAngel** · 22nd July 2009, 22:09

Originally Posted by FJRider

Kemet was correct .. a big slab of concrete makes this view impossible now.

The view is of the area in the Cromwell Gorge known as Jacksons.

It would be the Clyde dam that has changed the look of your original photo eh?

Clyde Dam is the largest concrete gravity dam in New Zealand consisting of one million cubic metres of concrete. It's height is 100 metres, width at base is 70 metres, width at crest 10 metres and length at crest 490 metres.

Controversy surrounded the building of the dam, which saw a number of orchards and houses removed from the Cromwell Gorge to allow the flooding of the river valley. The lake formed by the dam, Lake Dunstan, is 26.4 square kilometres in size.

The lake extends from the historical township of Clyde through the Cromwell Gorge to Cromwell township, with one arm travelling up the Kawarau River to Bannockburn and the other widening out over the Lowburn Flats.

**FJRider** · 22nd July 2009, 23:21

Originally Posted by LittleAngel

It would be the Clyde dam that has changed the look of your original photo eh?

Changed, some say ruined... I agree. Childhood memories only now.

**Kemet** · 27th July 2009, 16:12

Originally Posted by FJRider

Changed, some say ruined... I agree. Childhood memories only now.

I was only little when they built it, so my childhood memories were of watching the water level creeping higher as we drove to Queenstown for the school holidays....

Speaking of Q'town, there's something else that has changed - and not necessarily for the better.....